KHS girls take 3rd at Watonga XC meet
Trio of Lady Jackets pick up medals while Cashion’s Baustert is top county boys runner
LUKE BAUSTERT nears the finish line at the Watonga Cross Country Invitational. The Cashion senior placed eighth. [KT&FP Staff Photo]
Three Lady Jackets grabbed medals Saturday as Kingfisher High School’s girls took third place in the Watonga Cross Country Invitational.
Scout Snodgrass placed fourth overall, Lily Lunsford eighth and Harper Evans 20th in the 2,500 meter race.
For scoring purposes, their placings counted third, seventh and 16th, respectively as KHS scored 115 points in the meet.
That put the Lady Jackets behind champion Hooker’s 33 points and runner-up Watonga’s 95.
Terry Ann McCully was 36th (27th) for Kingfisher and Rylee Long-Bush 85th (62nd) to round out the team’s scorers.
Cashion’s Addison Mc-Cracken placed 32nd running as an individual.
There were 125 runners in the high school girls race.
Luke Baustert of Cashion was the highest-placing high school boys runner.
Baustert took eighth place in that 4,000 meter race.
He was joined by Kingfi sher’s Wyatt Long in medaling.
Long was 23rd as the top-30 placers earn medals.
Also for KHS, Conner Askey was 71st and Chance Dunn 89th out of 147 competitors.
Cashion’s Cole Baustert placed 40th while Dover’s Nathan Cohee was 49th.
No county school fielded a full boys’ team.
Watonga Cross Country Invitational Girls - 2,500 m
Hooker 33
Watonga 95
Kingfisher 115
Weatherford 140
Thomas 157
Chisholm 159
Amber-Pocasset 176
Boise City 185
Okeene 205
Fairview 214
Buffalo 264
Jones 325
Geary 330
Kingfisher - Scout Snodgrass 4th (3rd), 10:01; Lily Lunsford 8th (7th), 10:08; Harper Evans 20th (16th), 10:37; Terry Ann McCully 36th (27th), 11:00; Rylee Long-Bush 85th (62nd), 12:59; Chloe Richardson 93rd (68th), 13:16; Gisselle Ponce 94th (69th), 13:17
Cashion - Addison McCracken 32nd, 10:47
Boys - 4,000m
Kingfisher - Wyatt Long 23rd, 15:08; Conner Askey 71st, 16:48; Chance Dunn 89th, 17:39
Dover - Nathan Cohee 49th, 16:07
Cashion - Luke Baustert 8th, 14:17; Cole Baustert 40th, 15:41